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I'm wary of any law like this. Firstly, such a thing would be very difficult to prove. Secondly, unless the law deals with only the extreme cases the gray areas will get ugly. If a few mean comments are enough to become a criminal matter I would strongly oppose the law.

If there is compelling evidence of what is clearly psychological abuse along with a solid reason why the criminal justice system is a better option than divorce, however, I could get behind a prosecution.

I agree with this. I think it's a nice idea, but it needs to be reserved for the most extreme cases or not implemented at all.

Are you coming to bed?I can't. This is important.What?Someone is WRONG on the internet! -XKCD

Heck no. It is entirely in the eyes of the beholder what constitutes 'psychological violence'. If you're walking down the sidewalk bantering with your wife/husband and someone over hears and thinks that what we are saying should not be said to any individual and he/she calls the cops and tells them what was said then what happens?

This is what they call a slippery slope law. Might start with extreme cases but it will lead to the most inane of jokes being decriminalized. And possibly being extended to "hate speech".

And the most important part of all.

It interferes with freedom of speech. Don't get me wrong, I don't hold with verbally abusing anyone. But sometimes there's just nothing that should be done by the government because something else far larger is at stake. Besides, that's what divorce is for.

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There wasn't an option for "in rare cases," so I picked "sometimes". Psychological abuse can definitely harm, but, definitions would have to be so subjective as to make the law almost totally unenforceable.

Some French people are real short in much the same way that other nationalities have people who are also real short.

Skateguy posted(What France should be bared from--is making bad cars.)

Not entirely certain what France is bared from.

France makes some pretty good cars although sometimes when they introduce electronics into a vehicle they have a habit of going wrong, as in for example:

Renault 25 was introduced with an electronic voice simulator that advised the driver the vehicle was running low on fuel.

I picked up a Renault 25 from Paris drove it about 8KM / 5 miles whereupon it informed me the fuel tank was nearly empty, upon my filling the gas tank, it continued informing me thereafter every 3 minutes that the vehicle was running short of fuel.

"He who does not think himself worth saving from poverty and ignorance by his own efforts, will hardly be thought worth the efforts of anybody else." -- Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men (1872)
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